Taliban No. 2 guy in custody - Page 2

finnbow · #11 02-17-2010, 08:54 AM

What took the cake in the recent Cheney interview was when he said Obama had Bush to thank for the current apparent success in Iraq. WTF?

Obama gets stuck mopping up from an ugly war started under false pretenses and he should thank the perpetrator of this global fraud?

I think all these wingnut utterances about Obama's "weakness in the War on Terror" are just attempts to strengthen their narrative (GOP is strong on national defense, Dem's are pansies). It's part of the Goebbels doctrine, "Repeat something often enough and it becomes the truth."

merrylander · #12 02-17-2010, 09:01 AM

So tell me, who was the last Republican president to win a war? The Republicans talk the talk but they can't walk the walk.

piece-itpete · #13 02-17-2010, 09:50 AM

Obviously, Bush in Iraq.

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Originally Posted by d-ray657

cording to the Washington Post, they had this one in interrogation for more than a week before news leaked that he had been captured.

Regards,

D-Ray

Secret enhanced interrogation. Tsk, tsk.

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... It's funny for him to say that the current focus on Afghanistan is a continuation of a Bush policy, when that administration lost all interest in Afghanistan after they had concocted a justification to invade Iraq.

Regards,

D-Ray

Regards,

D-Ray

It was Iraq 1st, Afghanistan 2nd. Order of importance

Pete

d-ray657 · #14 02-17-2010, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Obviously, Bush in Iraq.

Secret enhanced interrogation. Tsk, tsk.

Just because Bush did it, there is no reason to assume that this administration will condone torture. I don't believe the articles or my post said anything other than the prisoner was interrogated.

It was Iraq 1st, Afghanistan 2nd. Order of importance

Pete

That order of importance would only arise from belief in the Bush/Cheney misinformation campaign. The actual perpetrator of 9/11 was holed up in Afghanistan. Sadam was more interested in terrorizing his own people than he was in engaging in a global terror campaign. The false premise supporting the invasion of Iraq became apparent a day or so into it. It switched from being an effort to eliminate WMD to "Operation Iraqi Freedom." By golly those people better accept freedom or we'll kill them.

Regards,

D-Ray

merrylander · #15 02-17-2010, 10:02 AM

[QUOTE=piece-itpete;20089]Obviously, Bush in Iraq.

ROTFLMAO, surely you jest.

finnbow · #16 02-17-2010, 10:15 AM

[QUOTE=merrylander;20092]

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Obviously, Bush in Iraq.

ROTFLMAO, surely you jest.

Ah, c'mon. Don't you remember that the "Mission" was "Accomplished" years ago.

piece-itpete · #17 02-17-2010, 10:28 AM

The withdrawal of troops started before Bush left office.

Pete

Fast_Eddie · #18 02-17-2010, 10:38 AM

To be fair, which rarely troubles me, I believe Bush did indeed have a plan by the end of his term to remove troops. I'm too busy to look it up right now, but I believe Obama is indeed working with that plan. I don't think I'm making that up.

Personally I don't care. Never should have been there in the first place.

Fast_Eddie · #19 02-17-2010, 10:50 AM

I dunno, maybe I'm wrong.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26621558/

Interesting read though. We were talking about the Afghanistan stuff- sure enough he said he'd do just this when he was campaigning. I knew I remembered that right.

Boreas · #20 02-17-2010, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by merrylander

So tell me, who was the last Republican president to win a war? The Republicans talk the talk but they can't walk the walk.

Lincoln and he only had to beat us.

John